Re: MacOS: xsltproc fails with "warning: failed to load external entity"

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 10:32:52AM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 27 Mar 2023, at 10:24, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 05:18:13PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I pushed the discussed documentation improvements, and changed the
> >> behavior of "ninja docs" to only build the HTML docs. However,
> >> I've not done anything about documenting what is the minimum
> >> ninja version.
> >
> > FTR the documented XML_CATALOG_FILES environment variable is only valid for
> > Intel based machines, as homebrew installs everything in a different location
> > for M1...
> >
> > I'm attaching a patch to make that distinction, hoping that no one else will
> > have to waste time trying to figure out how to get it working on such hardware.
>
> LGTM apart from the double // in the export which is easy enough to fix before
> pushing.
>
> +export XML_CATALOG_FILES=/opt/homebrew//etc/xml/catalog

Oh, I didn't notice it. Apparently apple's find isn't smart enough to trim a /
when fed with a directory with a trailing /

> For reference on why Homebrew use a different structure on Apple M1 the below
> issue has more details:
>
> https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177

Ah I was wondering why, thanks!